Guardian has no AoE Spender. Raze Needs to be Built into Maul as a Baseline Ability

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Regarding Midnight Alpha. As it stands, Guardian druid does not have a “baseline” AoE spender accessible without investing a large portion of their points into the left side of the tree, as our only AoE spender Raze is still somehow a capstone. I’m not quite sure about the design process surrounding this, as every other tank has an AoE spender accessed quite early in their tree.

Brew has easy access to Keg Smash, Warrior has easy access to Revenge, DH has easy access to Spirit Bomb/Soulcleave, DK has access to Blood Boil and the new cleaving Death Strike quite early, Pal has easy access to SoTR.

Guardian has baseline access to Maul with NOTHING other than thrash (delete swipe from your bars my dudes) to attempt to establish quick aggro now that Thorns of Iron is gone (rightfully). We have no offensive AoE rage dump until Raze is acquired (which takes a minimum of 22 points spent).

I’m really hoping blizzard considers moving Raze to the third/ 4th row of nodes or just having it replace maul entirely.

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Midnight Gdruid losing both thorn armor and TnC is a big L. No other tanks have to choose to spend primary resource on either defense or offense like Bear.

Prot war and brew changes look great. No reason to play this dumpster spec.

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Could agree, really hard to say how pepega blizzard is going to make general content. Tanks might be dumbed down across the board for nothing to matter at all.